SSCC TD: a serial and simultaneous configural-cue compound stimuli representation for temporal difference learning

Mondrag�n, Esther; Gray, Jonathan; Alonso, Eduardo; Bonardi, Charlotte; Jennings, D�mhnall J.

Abstract

This paper presents a novel representational framework for the Temporal Difference (TD) model of learning, which allows the computation of configural stimuli – cumulative compounds of stimuli that generate perceptual emergents known as configural cues. This Simultaneous and Serial Configural-cue Compound Stimuli Temporal Difference model (SSCC TD) can model both simultaneous and serial stimulus compounds, as well as compounds including the experimental context. This modification significantly broadens the range of phenomena which the TD paradigm can explain, and allows it to predict phenomena which traditional TD solutions cannot, particularly effects that depend on compound stimuli functioning as a whole, such as pattern learning and serial structural discriminations, and context-related effects.

Citation

Mondragón, E., Gray, J., Alonso, E., Bonardi, C., & Jennings, D. J. (2014). SSCC TD: a serial and simultaneous configural-cue compound stimuli representation for temporal difference learning. PLoS ONE, 9(7), Article e102469. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102469

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 18, 2014
• Publication Date: Jul 23, 2014
• Deposit Date: Oct 2, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 2, 2017
• Journal: PLoS ONE
• Electronic ISSN: 1932-6203
• Publisher: Public Library of Science
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 7
• Article Number: e102469
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102469
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/732028
• Publisher URL: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0102469
• Contract Date: Oct 2, 2017